# Bhagavad Gita 6.42

**Canonical reference:** `gita.6.42`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम्।
एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम् ॥

## IAST

athavā yogināmeva kule bhavati dhīmatām
etaddhi durlabhataraṃ loke janma yadīdṛśam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

and is afterwards born into a family of holy and illustrious men. Or he is even born into a family of talented devotees for such a birth as that in this world is more difficult to obtain.

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